The campaign has begun. Who are you rooting for? Are you a closet Farage supporter? Does Cameron deserve a second term? Will Nick Clegg finally grow a pair? Will the new series of Peep Show air this year?

I know, but we'll have 9 series of probably one of the best sitcoms ever made so we can be thankful for that - as far as I'm concerned, the fact that it's got to even this stage and isn't shit shows how brilliant it is.

Yeah, I live about 10 miles from Dover and came from the constituency Farage is representing locally so it's like UKIP central down here. Some absolute nutjobs.

I was originally going to vote the national health party but after seeing the debate and realising how shit the tory policies are and I really don't want to see the nhs be privatised. I think I'll be going for labour, especially as I'll be a student next year too.

I don't think labour are that much better and they'll do a shit job too but I font trust politicians anymore, so it's all about damage limitation from now on.

I agree, but at least in Scandinavia, the debate on certain things is so ridiculously polarized, partially because of leftists who stomp around calling people they disagree with 'nazis' (unwarranted namecalling obviously further their cause), that i just can't take the left seriously anymore and i'm almost considering giving my vote to neocons

If you vote for anything other than green you're wasting your time, best thing to do is either not vote or vote greens. NHS privatisation seems like a terrible idea to me, and the whole foreigner argument is complete tripe. Shit like that and in Australia our huge 'boat people' argument is used to distract. Poor people are not the ones with all the money, it makes no sense to argue that they're draining the economy.

@fish too many tsr members are deluded with their middle to upper class lives and have no idea exactly how bad the tories are. I mean they bring up all these excuses as to why labour is bad but all I can say is fucking HSBC

'I would like to see each candidate submit themselves to a five minute verbal decimation brought on by Jimmy Carr.' - Yeah, that'd be an interesting watch. Some of them might even make it to the end without crying.

NHS privatisation scares me, but it'll happen I reckon - I think there's already been deals made that will make it very difficult to reverse what motion has already happened.

Yeah, I agree with you Tuna. I can't see him being like Blair (i.e. war criminal in the making) so there's that going for him. All we're gonna hear for the next 40 days is not so much putting points across, but vague sounding policies mixed with slagging the opposition off like a playground battle.
And yeah, at least we don't have Abbott.

When Paxman grilled the pair of them, that was pretty insightful but I didn't like how the audience was attacking ed rather than the party policies. The stuff about his brother was unnecessary and irrelevant